Performs Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding

Performs Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) analysis to obtain probabilistic estimates of race based on surname and geolocation. This package can be used in tandem with the 'eiCompare' package. Methods implemented in this package are described in Decter-Frain, A., Sachdeva, P., Collingwood, L., Burke, J., Murayama, H., Barreto, M., … Zingher, J. (2022). "Comparing Methods for Estimating Demographics in Racially Polarized Voting Analyses" .


BISG

Perform BISG analysis on records to obtain probabilistic estimates of race. This package can be used in tandem with the eiCompare package.

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install.packages("bisg")

0.1.0 by Rachel Carroll, 3 years ago


https://github.com/RPVote/bisg


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/bisg


Authors: Ari Decter-Frain [aut] , Pratik Sachdeva [aut] , Rachel Carroll [aut, cre]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL-3 license


Imports dplyr, rlang, stringr, tidycensus, tigris

Depends on wru

Suggests eiCompare, eiExpand


See at CRAN